Word of the Day: DIALECTIC

The good kind of argument

dialectic (noun) - any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments [dahy-uh-lek-tik]

BREAKDOWN: DIA- (through) + LECT- (speech) + -IC (exhibiting)

• dialectical means related to argumentation or concerned with or acting through opposing forces

• dialect is a regional form of a language

“Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.” —Plotinus